Yeah, I miss the recent comments gadget, but I'm used to just looking up recent threads and checking out the 'espace détente' and 'actualités'.

I enjoy the sound of aircraft overhead. I hear it all the time here where I live. Mixed in with the sound of distant traffic, the occasional sound of a distant train, the wind blowing through the trees, and the sound of birds, it is like some kind of ambient music.

When I was living in Richmond, West of London, the house I was in was situated exactly, and I mean exactly, under the main landing path to Heathrow.

About every three minutes or so I could see a jet preparing for landing and opening the space of the undercarriage and actually seeing the wheels just some 100 feet above my head, and this was absolutely fa-sci-na-ting!